We close out 2021 with a bit of site news, teases for the future, and a video of the biggest blunder in the history of New Year’s Eve.

It’s the holidays and the end of the year—please throw some support and love to our contributors. This post provides a few ways of doing that.

Adrian hands out superlatives to 12 cinematic Santas and some of them get REAL specific.

A yuletide ode to the 1990 story of suburban vigilante justice…y’know, for kids!

December 2021 is #SeasonBeatings. Here’s an introduction to Neon Splatter’s month-long celebration of holiday-themed (or simply holiday-adjacent) action.

ROCKY IV’s Christmas boxing match to end the Cold War was the main event—but it overshadows the real drama occurring within the wives of the fighters.

Heather Wixson on how Richard Donner’s direction and Shane Black’s writing helped redefine the action hero in the 1980s.

This blundering action/sci-fi movie starring Jesse Ventura (and found in the public domain) is incredibly inept, but has its charms and its lessons to teach.

In celebration of the Christmas sequel to the Christmas action film, Mary Kay McBrayer looks at the Top 5 Bureaucratic Heroes of DIE HARD 2: DIE HARDER.

Hulk Ho-Ho-Hogan Spreads Holiday Cheer In This Much Maligned Children’s Holiday Movie.

Or, 7 Ways to Improve Your Corporate Holiday Party—According to DIE HARD (1988)

HOME ALONE endures not just due to nostalgia and madcap violence, but also its embrace of the fantastic and moods of the holidays.

A trainwreck of genres and ideas, Jerry London’s holiday-set film feels like everyone is in their own movie—no matter how it clashes with those around them.

A beautiful Christmas tale of family and forgiveness, with the proper amounts of car chases, parkour sequences, and other madcap action sprinkled throughout.